Reportedly the poet Alphonse de Lamartine also fell in love with her, and she was the inspiration for Elvire in his 1820 autobiographical Poetic Meditation " Le Lac " (" The Lake "), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man.

In retrospect, O ' Toole can date the beginning of her songwriting career to events during a car ride after the September 11 attacks ; as her husband Michael McKean describes it, " On September 11, 2001, Annette found herself without an airline to carry her back down to Los Angeles from Vancouver, where she films Smallville.

In retrospect, she stated in an interview with the Daily Record that her Scottish accent probably gave her an advantage in the casting, as the casting director asked the girls who attended the audition, " Is there anyone here from Scotland?

Nevertheless, she acknowledged in retrospect that the experience had been the most valuable part of her time in Paris: " I realized in what way the family had fulfilled their task of instilling French culture into at least one of their British charges.

In retrospect she not only has broken the Party's restriction, she runs the nation's psyche.

In retrospect it seems to Mark that she has been outlining to him a service that she would be willing to provide.

In retrospect his reign may be said to end before the situation of the Byzantine Empire became untenable.

In retrospect of those tours, Love said: " I was completely high on dope, I cannot remember much about it.

Hall used a 1 / 8 inch Tiffen Black ProMist filter for almost every scene, which he said in retrospect may not have been the best choice, as the optical steps required to blow Super 35 up for its anamorphic release print led to a slight amount of degradation ; therefore, the diffusion from the filter was not required.

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.

Harkleroad in 1998 said in retrospect: " We're dealing with a strange person, coming from a place of being a sculptor / painter, using music as his idiom.

This tendency can manifest in retrospective thinking as well: in a 2005 study, angry subjects said they thought the risks of terrorism in the year following 9 / 11 in retrospect were low, compared to what the fearful and neutral subjects thought.

In retrospect, Schreiber said in a 2008 interview, he appreciates his mother's influences, saying, " Since I've had Sasha, I've completely identified with everything my mother went through raising me ... And I think her choices were inspired.

" In retrospect, Love said that Erlandson " had a Thurston quality about him ", " dressed cool ", and was an " intensely weird, good guitarist.

Thomas said in a New York Times interview that " If I had seen miracles Hinn's ministry, I would have been happy to trumpet it ... but in retrospect, I think they do more damage to Christianity than the most committed atheist.

The duo have said that in retrospect, most of their albums have a ' feel ' of either Los Angeles or New York City, the two main bases where Becker and Fagen lived and operated ( see below ).

In retrospect, Lynch has said, " I feel bad that Fire Walk with Me did no business and that a lot of people hate the film.

In retrospect, Waters said " maybe it's just as well it wasn't used after all ".

The clerical leadership declared that " thousands have been massacred by Zionist troops ," but in retrospect it has been said that " the main casualty " of the shooting was " any hope for compromise " between the protest movement and the Shah's regime.

In a 2009 interview, Bob Stanley said that in retrospect the band " got ahead of ourselves a bit " by releasing such an uncommercial album, which " definitely could have done with a couple more obvious songs ".

Kennan acknowledged in retrospect that it was a " foolish thing for me to have said.

Bill Leader, who produced the album, said " It seems to me, in retrospect, that each day a different member of the group had decided that this was it: ' Sod this for a game of soldiers, I'm leaving the group!

In retrospect, Clark said, " I think that with music school and art school, or school in any form, there has to be some system of grading and measurement.

He said: " Obviously, there may be occasions when, in retrospect, a commander chose the wrong piece of equipment, the wrong vehicle, for the particular threat that the patrol or whatever it was encountered and we had some casualties as a result.

In retrospect, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., assistant to the CIA Director, denied that the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état resulted from the conflation of private, multinational, business interests and US Government foreign policy ; he said that there “ is absolutely no reason to believe ” that the Eisenhower Administration ’ s ( 1953 – 61 ) desire to help the United Fruit Company had “ any significant role ” in deciding to depose the elected Guatemalan government of President Jacobo Árbenz.

" By the time we had resolved some of the terms ," he said, " they were really against the wall in terms of back story ... In retrospect, I should have just slept on the set because it was like sixty or seventy pages a day!

" In 2001, Officer Todd Parrick said in retrospect, " We weren't just searching for drugs.

John Serba of Allmusic said that Orchid was " quite an audacious release, a far-beyond-epic prog / death monstrosity exuding equal parts beauty and brutality -- an album so brilliant, so navel-gazingly pretentious that, in retrospect, Opeth's future greatness was a foregone conclusion.

In retrospect from 2004, William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that the film was " widely regarded as Sayles ' masterpiece ", declaring that it had " captured the zeitgeist of the ' 90s as successfully as " Chinatown " did the ' 70s ".

In retrospect, Boyd said he wished that he had gone to Sun Records.

In retrospect, it is likely that Lima was expecting a repetition of the 1981 incident, unaware of the scale of the Ecuadorian deployment.

I would now say in retrospect that he was actually conservative, moderate and that his conclusions are trustworthy.

Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d ' Hiver (" International Winter Sports Week ") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924, organized by the French Olympic Committee, were in retrospect designated by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) as the I Olympic Winter Games.

A year after Consciousness Explained was published, Dennett noted " I wish in retrospect that I'd been more daring, since the effects are stronger than I claimed ".

The extra " e ," according to Dionne, " was the worst thing I could have done in retrospect, and in 1975 I finally got rid of that damn ' e ' and became ' Dionne Warwick ' again.

Friedman responded to criticism by writing: " In retrospect I probably should have used a more precise term like ‘ engineered ’ by the Israel lobby -- a term that does not suggest grand conspiracy theories that I don ’ t subscribe to .”

I supported the Iraq War and ( although I feel kind of silly about it in retrospect ) the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

The race is in retrospect sometimes referred to as the I Grand Prix de l ' ACF.

The Belle Époque was named, in retrospect, when it began to be considered a " golden age " in contrast to the horrors of World War I.

In retrospect this sounds like a futile thing to attempt, but I think I wound up pulling it off better than I ever thought I would.

Although this appears shortsighted in retrospect, it is important to realize that communications had been perceived as a natural monopoly for almost a century — indeed, in much of the world, telephone networks were then and still are explicitly operated as a government monopoly.

Innocent Victim, released in November 1977, " had a slight edge on Firefly ", according to Box, but still in retrospect this " blend of sharp, short rockers and pop-friendly ballads " looked like " an attempt to court the American AOR market ".

declared it " the most mature and perhaps best album of their career " and in retrospect it is still seen as " one of the most consistent and engaging albums in the group's lengthy catalog.

In retrospect, Robinson commented that at first, Duncan was reluctant to step into the void, still needing some time to truly develop his leadership skills.

Although fans probably thought of as an unconscionable crossover attempt, it's still quite experimental in retrospect ".

Looking back at the McCarthy era over 40 years later as an interviewee in the film Arguing the World, Glazer reflected on the stance he and some other liberal anti-communists took: " Even at the time and also in retrospect we never managed to figure out a good position, one that was respectable and moral and responsive to all the complicated issues raised ... I still don't think we have one.

The Intelligence had been usurped by Ronan the Accuser, but ( as he explained to Rick in retrospect ), he was still capable of channeling his powers through an agent.

By the war's end, the impact of air missions on the ground war was in retrospect mainly tactical – strategic bombing, in particular, was still very rudimentary indeed.

In retrospect we can now recognize that this category covered a heterogeneous collection of disorders which included cases of dominantly inherited diabetes ( the topic of this article, still called MODY today ), as well as cases of what we would now call type 2 diabetes occurring in childhood or adolescence, and a few even rarer types of hyperglycemia ( e. g., mitochondrial diabetes or mutant insulin ).

" He also commented, " I am a reasonably unimaginative man, but Buna is still to me, in retrospect, a nightmare.